On Tuesday, three of nine ballot issues Denver voters had to decide dealt with animals and animal products. But nothing changed because all of them were slaughtered at the ballot box.
One of the ballot issues called for prohibiting any slaughterhouse from operating in the City or County of Denver. That
Continue Reading No changes involving animals came about in Colorado elections
It took a few days, but California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed the first-of-its-kind ban on six harmful dyes in school food.
The new law prohibits public schools from serving food and beverages containing synthetic colorings, which California lawmakers believe are linked to neurobehavioral issues experienced by some children.
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Continue Reading Newsom signs law to prevent California schools from serving food with certain additives
The California Legislature has banned more food ingredients in the name of food safety. This time, six food dyes are being banned from California’s public schools. Passed unanimously by the California Senate and Assembly, the California Food Safety Act only awaits the governor’s signature to become law.
The bill prohibits
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Florida is just too large a market, and it’s too precedent-setting among jurisdictions for the cell-grown meat ventures to let the ban of their product go unchallenged. So, to no one’s surprise, Upside Foods has sued Florida officials in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida at
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Two U.S. states and one European country are banning manufacturing, selling, and distributing cultivated meat and poultry products. Italy enacted a ban last year, and Florida and Alabama enacted their laws on the books in only the last few days.
The bans were enacted after the robust cultivated meat industry
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“The Revolution That Died on Its Way to Dinner” By Joe Fassler was published on March 2 in the New York Times. It told of how the cultivated meat industry “was never a real prospect.”
But Florida is still taking it for real. Yesterday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a
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Sometimes a bill about planting potatoes is simply about planting potatoes.
In Colorado, where the Legislature ends on May 8, a bill concerning the planting of uncertified potatoes is already on the governor’s desk.
Colorado potato growers plant more than 52,000 acres annually to produce more than 1 million tons
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The 56th Arizona Legislature adjourned Sine Die, which is about a bill that failed to pass.
House Bill 2244 would have added meat labeling to Arizona’s Pure Food Control Act. It would have prohibited a person from misleading food.
Arizona Rep. Quang Nguyen, R-Prescott Valley, introduced HB 2244 to impose
The Colorado General Assembly has its own routines. One allows a bill to change its spots.
Take SB24-026, for example. It was one of the first bills heard during the current legislative session about “accountability and food freedom.”
It was heard by the Senate Agriculture and Natural Committee on Jan.
Continue Reading The subject of Colorado’s ‘Food Freedom’ bill has been changed entirely
Two state legislatures have been handling bills for selling unpasteurized, raw milk. One in Michigan is stalled in committee, while the other in West Virginia has been approved without the governor’s signature.
It is against the law to sell raw milk across state lines, and many states have full or
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